KippsDeSanto & Co. advises Decision Lens on its investment from Diversis Capital

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KippsDeSanto & Co. is pleased to announce that its client Decision Lens (or the “Company”), has received an investment from Diversis Capital, a software and technology focused private equity fund which has raised over $1 billion in institutional capital across its fund vehicles.

Decision Lens provides integrated planning software to mission-driven customers in the defense, Intelligence Community (“IC”), federal civilian, and state and local markets. The Company combines deep domain expertise, a proprietary Software-as-a-Service (“SaaS“)-based platform, and an extraordinary customer experience to deliver a comprehensive solution for identifying, prioritizing, analyzing, and measuring which investments, projects, and resources will optimize outcomes to meet an agency’s mission across multiple siloed organizations. The Company’s software fuses quantitative data (budget, ERP, accounting, etc.), qualitative data (readiness, mission impact, risk, priority, etc.), and deep decision science expertise to equip customers with the requisite tools to make better, faster, and data-driven decisions.

The investment represents a new platform for Diversis Capital, accelerating Decision Lens’ growth through the continued development of its software platform that has proven to be the tool government leaders rely on to transform how their agencies prioritize, plan, and fund.

This transaction highlights several key trends in the government technology M&A market:

  • Increasing market demand for SaaS companies providing innovative enterprise software to the federal and state and local government;
  • Continued demand for companies that are poised to capitalize on key market growth drivers (e.g., data driven decision making, government wide modernization initiatives, and increasing mandates to align government spending with stated priorities, etc.);
  • Favorable market tailwinds for SaaS solutions addressing the office of the CFO space through the transition and digitization of paper-based and excel-based solutions into automated platforms;
  • Robust financial sponsor activity and appetite for GovTech platform investments particularly for companies with leading market positions, best-in-class, highly differentiated technology and software and seasoned management teams

Read more in the full press release.

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